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📕 Read more in our FREE guide about framing our conversations to promote this call to action.
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🇺🇸 Happy Presidents' Day!
🗣️ President Obama expresses the belief of many that in this country, "the people should be in charge", with these remarks.
📕 Read more in this Topos guide about framing our conversations to promote this call to action.
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💯 Wonderful to read this terrific statement about the benefits of public funding from leadership at South Carolina Arts Alliance!
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💡 At Topos we’re always interested in the signs of culture shift. We are intrigued by this finding from the folks at Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life about the impact of young voters in major elections this fall.

🗳️ Are young voters saying it’s their time to take charge?

Topos research for US@250 uncovered this important idea: In America, the people are supposed to be in charge. What does it mean?

Read more in the FREE narrative guide to claiming our story for US@250
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#USA250 #US250

"And when we have our march, you need to be there. If it means leaving work, if it means leaving school, be there. Be concerned about your brother. You may not be on strike. But either we go up together, or we go down together."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

📸: Warren K. Leffler, March on Washington

Welcome to Our 250th Anniversary 🎉
We invite you to lend your voice, stories, art, and energy to ensure that the 250th anniversary of our founding is a recommitment to a core American idea: In America, the people are supposed to be in charge.
Thx @thinkbigalliance.bsky.social

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Our NEW narrative guide is LIVE!

For organizers, artists, and storytellers to help tell authentic and inclusive American stories and use the US@250 moment to push our nation closer to its promise. #America250

In partnership with @teamtopos.bsky.social

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In the Hands of the People: A Guide to Claiming America's Story - Think Big What are the stories that can help us imagine and build a future America that truly belongs to all of us, an America where belonging is co-created and power is genuinely shared? That’s a question Thin...

Heading into #America250, In the Hands of the People, with @teamtopos.bsky.social shows how organizers, creators, and advocates can shape inclusive narratives. Learn more:
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At Topos we’re always interested in and studying the signs of culture shift. We are intrigued by this finding from the folks at Tisch about the impact of young voters in major elections this fall. Are young voters saying it’s their time to take charge?
#elections #voters

What does it mean to be American today? Our meta-analysis explores the values that unite us, the divides that pull us apart, and the stories shaping our collective identity. #America250

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YouTube video by MSNBC MSNBC host presses Mamdani on his 2% millionaire tax on NYC's richest

YES! Taxes fund quality of life, and that matters to ALL of us!
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@nyfiscalpolicy.bsky.social
@msnbc.com

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Consider: Who is in control? - Topos Partnership Privatization contractually transfers control over important public things to private interests. And this is true whether it’s a rocket, or science, or rocket science. Some things must be kept in publ...

Who's in control? Talking about #ElonMusk + #Trump, mud wrestling, and the important question of who is in control. @itpi.bsky.social @jeffhagan.bsky.social #privatization ‪@spacex.extwitter.link‬
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YES! 🎯 @mcuban.bsky.social‬ has it right! 💯 The flaw in the Republican plan for work requirements is that people are ALREADY working! So Republicans are devastating the health care system we all rely on for nothing! 😡

YES! 🎯 @mcuban.bsky.social‬ has it right! 💯 The flaw in the Republican plan for work requirements is that people are ALREADY working! So Republicans are devastating the health care system we all rely on for nothing! 😡

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Why Missouri’s Trump Voters Backed Pro-Worker Policies - Topos Partnership Reframing the economy as people-driven can help gain support for progressive policies from voters who may also hold conservative views on other issues.

Want to know why Missouri Trump voters also supported paid leave and a minimum wage increase?

We can tell you!

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Most Americans don't earn enough to afford basic costs of living, analysis finds The bottom 60% of U.S. households don't make enough money to afford a "minimal quality of life," according to a new analysis.

When most Americans don't earn enough to afford the basics—our whole economy suffers. We need more economy boosting jobs.

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How to Talk About Community Impact of a Terminated NEA Project - Topos Partnership This guide is based on Topos Partnership research for communicating about the arts for broad public support and building understanding that the arts are a public good. While it’s easy to focus on the ...

A "MadLib" to share the news about your cancelled #NEA grant. In 4 sentences, build your story about the community impact of the #arts. This is the moment to move our supporters to action!
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A mural of workers from the 1930s

Happy May Day! Celebrating Workers! 🫶🏻

Artist: Victor Mikhail Arnautoff,
WPA artist in Coit Tower,
SF

We're with you and the residents of Missouri!

🏥 When we talk about the federal budget debate....say Health Care, not Medicaid! 🗣️

Talking About Medicaid Right Now - Topos Partnership Cuts to Medicaid are front and center in the national debate right now. Congressional Democrats held a “Day of Action” for Medicaid this week. Engaging the public to resist the cuts means getting the ...

How to talk about the health care issues in the budget debate right now—Topos Partnership shares tips!
Start with #healthcare, not #Medicaid. #Congress

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Distressed Voters - Topos Partnership Election analysts have long talked about low-information voters or low-engagement voters … terms that smack of criticism and even elitism. Yes, it’s easy for some of us to be surprised by what others ...

What should communicators do about Distressed Voters? Topos Partnership co-founder Joseph Grady has suggestions about how to handle "what others don’t know or pay attention to".

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